Sentences with phrase «on the concussion review»

A number of Thursday's back pages focus on the concussion review panel failing to sanction Northampton Saints for their treatment of Wales wing George North after he suffered a head injury at the beginning of the month, despite the panel concluding that he should not have returned to play after the incident.

Not exact matches

Reviewing data on concussion - related emergency department (ED) visits for patients between the ages of 8 and 19 years from 1997 to 2007, researchers found that:

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

Students participating or desiring to participate in an athletic activity and their parent or guardian must sign and return an acknowledgement of and receipt and review of a concussion and traumatic brain injury information sheet on an annual basis.

Youth athletes and their parents must annually review and return information on concussion and head injury prior to their participation in practice or competition.

The policies must (1) Require the student athlete and their parent or guardian to annually review and sign information on concussions, (2) Require that a student athlete suspected by their coach, athletic trainer or team physician of sustaining a concussion or brain injury in a practice or game be removed from the activity at that time.

[Editor's note and update: Dr. Balcer's advice to stay tuned was appropriate: since this initial study, three more peer reviewed studies2, 3,4 have confirmed that the KD test is a reliable tool for identifying possible concussion on the sports sideline.

Rather than write this type of review, I wanted to offer my personal take on the film as a parent of a child with concussions and as concussion educator, and why I think parents should see Head Games.

The ConcussionWise ™ DR program is an education initiative to ensure that physicians across the Commonwealth are knowledgeable on the topic of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and are trained in current peer - reviewed research about the management of concussions.

Over the past two years, a scientific committee and expert panel consisting of 33 individuals from around the globe with expertise in sport concussion, contributed through defining the key questions, completing literature reviews and met to come to a consensus on the research presented at the conference.

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